Google has violated my trust and changed my homepage without authorization. There’s a reason why I use Safari instead of Firefox, and that reason involves proper UI elements on webpages. I will not tolerate Google deciding to use asinine -webkit-appearance CSS styles to make them appear the wrong way. Also, the obnoxiously large search text was novel for about 5 minutes until it just got…annoying.

To fix this problem, add the following to your custom style sheet in Safari:

.lsb {  -webkit-appearance: push-button !important; }

.lst { font-size: 12px !important; }

You can do this by creating a file, custom.css somewhere on your Mac and then adding these lines to the file in your favorite text editor. Once that’s done, open up Safari > Preferences… > Advanced  and select that file as your “Style sheet.”

Google should be back to it’s normal self again. Now just to fix that horizontal bar that seems to have solidified…

EDIT: To re-fluidize the horizontal bar in the search results, just put this little guy in there too:

#cnt {max-width:none !important;}

The -webkit culprit!

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Well this isn’t a whiteboard, more of a drawing, but certainly the most productive I’ve been all year in French class.

It’s called the WordDuck.

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[old] When something is so awesome that it just makes you feel like totally exploding, you explode with awesomeness.

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Not really a whiteboard, but exam time does offer some doodling opportunities, so this will be 14.

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I took a bit of a break for the Holidays, but we’re back this week. On the left is “One in land and one box’d.” Kevin and I were planning on building an electric snow mobile and this came up in the conversation. Those are two GT, an obedient one and one trying to run away, and getting box’d.

To the right is a flow chart for Janine.

EDIT: Oh, and that sticky there says “Fix Me!” because the little ledge for the markers and eraser has been falling off since I got it. I needed a glue gun but Laura’s been going craft crazy and has no glue left.

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Well Christmas holidays are finally here! Thank goodness, I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. In accordance with the law of inversion, this weeks’ whiteboard doesn’t actually have any of my own drawings on it. The face is mine, but it was a lot cuter before my sister attacked it. She felt the need to draw in mirror, so I offer the flipped version below for the visually challenged. Basically it’s just a montage celebrating me from what I can tell…:D   

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So I’m hoping you can identify my drawings from other people’s by now. The printing party and wetting house radio is of course mine, and the rest are my sister’s. There was also this hideous blingy smile, but I was so disgusted seeing it this morning that I had to erase it. Sorry Laura.

My favorite of Laura’s is the guy creeping out from the frame eating a cupcake off the house. Awesome.

Printing party is a reference to Kevin’s “My 5Si is going to have a party printing this document”, referring to his epic typefest, writing up all of Grease: School Version…just for convenient access I guess. The wetting house is what you get when you take the “s” of your White-Westinghouse Radio. A radio that showers your house.

Stay tuned for a wonderful whiteboard animation of “La Neige en Deuil” by Henri Troyat.

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So…it’s been a bit more than a week. And I don’t have any make-up boards. Ok, I’m sorry, but Grease does that to a person. But I do have some plans for a french project involving the whiteboard, so don’t get too disappointed.

While half asleep Kevin’s rantings about thermostaticity started rolling through my brain, and I came up with that question. I dunno. Top right is “Typing into the Sunset” and bottom right is “SIDEBANDED”, illustrated. In effect, what happens when you… are interfering RF with different RF bands? 

Have a good week, and remember, tomorrow’s hump day!

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So I’m thinking the WotW is quite inversely proportional to my actual thoughts or something, because this was probably the biggest week for me ever, just…learning so much about myself and the world around me, and yet the reflections on the board are far from inspirational. Maybe that’s a good thing, because we can’t have amazing weeks all the time, so most of the time the whiteboards will be good? I’m not sure, but here’s this weeks in all it’s grayscale glory. (I’ve been keeping my camera in B&W mode, and noticing that a lot of other people do too. It’s a good idea: you can focus on the color balance without being distracted. Plus when you shoot in RAW it is still kept color once you download it.

So the main scene here is my closet. I reorganized it recently and thought about the giant multi-function printer thing I have in there that I use exclusively for scanning. (I got it from Kevin, and the printer fails and our house doesn’t need more faxes so…) Anyway essentially everything has sort of grown around it, because I keep all my rolls of tape in it’s paper feeders, and it makes me think of a jungle growing around something abandoned in it. (Notably, the abandoned truck in this book from my childhood.)

To the side in that square is Kevin “steaming” the inkjet heads of our old printer. Inkjet spa.

Some interesting thoughts from this week: Wordpress has won my heart. My dream is to have all the websites I manage on my Safari toolbar, so that anytime something needs to be changed I can hit Command-# and be in their admin area. I’m starting with elderadvocates.ca, where I’ll be merging all the documents into a giant RSS feed with a bit of PHP and then importing them into Wordpress as posts, then converting them to pages using the lovely p2pConverter. I did notice a glitch with it though: it doesn’t seem to handle converting pages with quotation marks in the title. I suspect there’s an escaping issue in the JavaScript somewhere, because it asks you to confirm changing from page to post. (Which, quite honestly isn’t that necessary considering you can switch it back just as easily…)

I’m pretty sure it’s just as easy to do it right in the SQL database too, which might be more efficient for bulk conversion. 

Have a good week everyone!

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